New Years Eve

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Yes, this post is about 2 months late....but better late than never!
New Years Eve has always been a little overrated to me. Until the last few years, I would always get so excited for it, planning what I would do, who I would do it with and what I would wear for weeks ahead of time.....only to be disappointed that it never turned out the way I imagined it should!
I feel like I've been more realistic the last few years, even so far as to really not care much about staying up until midnight at all! I get to kiss my handsome husband every day so the "midnight kiss" isn't as exciting as it was before I found my love :)

This year we were invited to some friends house for a "toddler friendly" New Years Bash. All except one of us were pregnant, so we all whipped up our favorite appetizers and headed over for a giant family play-date. It was so much fun! This was the way to spend New Years and I plan on doing something similar every year from now until my kids are old enough to want to spend it with their own friends.

Our friends who hosted, the Valas, even had a "party hat and confetti cone" making station for the kids and it was such a fun touch. Max had a riot and we celebrate the countdown at 8:00pm and were home by 9:30. It was just perfect!!

Catching Up

Well Shoot. I meant to start staying on top of this and just can't seem to catch a break. Max and I have been sick the past 2 weeks with a cold and now I'm finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for a nasty sinus infection. I wish I felt like blogging when I'm sick.....but I'm sure you and Jesus appreciate when I don't because I just don't have anything nice to say :)

Let me just do a recap of lately.

-Here's a little tip. Urgent Care on Valentine's Day is pretty slick. They get you in and out as fast as you can even imagine. If your husband is at a convention in Vegas than it's not too bad of a place to end up. The pharmacy at Walmart, however, is another story. You don't want to be in line with the people who are getting prescriptions filled on Valentine's Day at Walmart. I've never seen a sorrier bunch of sniveling, coughing, sweaty, strange bunch of sick people as I did on Valentine's Day at Walmart. And I was one of them, enough said.

-The last two weeks where we've been stuck at home sick have been a true test of my character and patience. And I failed in every way. It's so hard not feeling well, being 18 weeks pregnant and trying to keep a 2 year old from literally climbing up the walls. Why can't my kid just want to watch movies when he's sick? Nope, he has more energy than a mechanical bull. Lord help me. I was so out of my mind by last Saturday night that Kirk asked if he could get me a hotel room by myself. I almost took him up on it just to get a break for a few hours but felt bad that he was leaving for Vegas the next day...ahh well, another time.

-I'm trying to figure out if i need to start this potty-training thing full speed ahead. Almost every day at least once Max takes off his diaper and watches himself pee on whatever he happens to be sitting on at the time. He thinks it's the funniest thing in the world and I'm getting a wee bit tired of washing clothes, sheets, carpet, etc. He always wants to sit on the toilet but when I put him on there he is terrified to actually do anything.......If anyone has a good book or suggestion I'm all ears!

-I finally got the "all-clear" for not being contagious yesterday so I was able to go out for my friend Stacie's birthday with my girlfriends from Mom's Club. We hit up JAMs, which I've always wanted to try and I fell in love. I just finished off my fish taco leftovers and they were so amazing. We sat there for 4 hours catching up and it was the best form of therapy I needed after a long sick two weeks!

-I feel like I'm sitting in a pile of filth. Kirk decided to get me a housecleaner once a month to ease my load and help with my mental health ;). This has been the biggest blessing, however... now that Bibiana comes every 4 weeks to do a deep clean, I have neglected to do much in between. I used to do a thorough cleaning once a week and let it slide for two weeks if I was really in a crunch for time, but now I wait 4 weeks. This is so disgusting and unacceptable but it's just so freaking hard to motivate myself to do much when I know Bibi is going to come save the day soon. Plus with the pregnancy and such, I just haven't had any motivation to do much. I'm hoping my "nesting" feeling comes along soon...

-I find out if this little bean inside me is a boy or girl next Tuesday and the closer it gets the more excited I am!! I really can't decide what would be better. I guess I'll take anything and just pray it's healthy! I told Kirk if we find out it's a girl he better take the rest of the morning off after the ultrasound, though, because we are doing some serious shopping! :)

-Max and I joined My Gym, a gym specifically for toddlers. It has been great! The teachers are so stinking cheesy that I have to hold back my gag reflex but I can handle it for one hour a week and the kids love them. Because of our sickness last week, we are doing an extra make-up session on Saturday. I'm sending Kirk, haha. He won't know what hit him :)

-I've decided I need to get over this whole fear of getting dirty. I'm kind of girly in that way and I hate getting dirty and I hate Max getting dirty because I'm the one that usually cleans him up. But boys were made to get dirty and I really need to start letting this happen! I pulled out and cleaned up my galoshes and Max and I have been playing outside a ton the last two days, stomping through muddy puddles, going down disgusting slides at the park and really having the time of our life. This weather does wonders on the mood and I need to keep telling myself that everything is washable!

That's about it for the random thoughts running through my head. I need to get pictures uploaded from New Years Eve on.....as soon as I do that I'll get some more interesting blogs done about the fun we've had since then.

I'm Back! And Going Crazy!

Well, I've heard from a couple friends who have said I've spent more than my 2 weeks away from this blog. Time to get back in the saddle, I guess!

I'm sure everyone who reads this blog knows by now, but the reason I took time off was that I found out I was pregnant and starting around 5 1/2 weeks, got very sick and am just now, these past couple weeks, starting to feel somewhat normal again. Being pregnant this time around has just stunk. Although I was sick on and off my first trimester with Max, in general I felt really good and absolutely loved being pregnant. I now have tons more empathy for friends who have had horrible pregnancies because I can now say I've been there!!!

Anyway, enough complaining about that. I'm excited to be pregnant! I find out in 3 weeks if this kiddo is a boy or girl and even though I really could care less what the sex is at this point, I feel like it's a girl, mainly because this pregnancy has been so different from my first. So it's either a girl or a really ornery boy. :) Either way I can't wait to find out!

The last week has been a little stressful at our house. We have made the transition from crib to big boy bed for Max in order to start prepping the nursery for this new baby and it's been kind of rough! The first few nights were great, Max stayed in bed, slept through the night and did great. The past few days, however, have been an entirely different story, getting worse every day! Just a few minutes ago, in fact, I made a frantic call to my friend Micaela who I regard as a parenting expert and left her a voicemail saying I needed some serious help with this issue!

It is 4:11pm and Max has STILL not fallen asleep for his nap today. I'm about to cry "UNCLE" and give in, but really don't want him thinking he can stop napping every day! I have gone in there six times already and each time I find Max getting into something or doing something he shouldn't. I have already removed many things from his room.....let me give you the rundown.

1st time out of bed: Found he had crawled on top of his tall bookshelf, gotten down the hand sanitizer and had smeared it all over himself and my carpet.

2nd time out of bed: Found he had once again crawled on top of his bookshelf, gotten down the tube of Desitin, crawled back into bed and was smearing it all over himself and his sheets. I didn't bother cleaning either up, just took the Desitin and put him back in bed.

3rd time out of bed: Found him on the floor "picking up" all the pillows, animals, etc. he had thrown off his bed.

4th time out of bed: Heard him yelling "YEEHAW" and found he had dragged his rocking horse to the middle of his bedroom and was riding away.

5th time out of bed: (This may have been the funniest if not the most frustrating...) Found he had taken out the new package of diaperwipes, stripped off all his clothes AND diaper and was laying on the floor wiping his own butt saying, "I wipe my butt, I wipe my butt".

6th time out of bed: Found he had somehow managed to pull the doorstopper out of the wall and fold his rug in half.

What is a mommy to do?? Anyone have suggestions?? A few times I told him if he got out of bed again he would get a spanken...which I did follow through with but today it hasn't worked from keeping him in bed. I try to keep a straight face, put him back in bed, remove all tempting things from his room and leave, but as soon as I close the door I can hear him getting into something else. I'm at a loss.

Anyway, that's been my day. Super exciting. And now I'm about to go check on him for the 7th time and if he's awake, I'm calling a huge FAIL for the day and letting him stay up so I can put him to bed early tonight. Seems silly for him to nap now when he goes to bed at 8pm.